Ansoft Maxwell
If you have to simulate 2D or 3D structures such as motor, generators, transformers and actuators Ansoft Maxwell is the package to go with.
With it's wide variety of available solvers the package covers the full spectrum.
- Electric Field, Transient and electrostatic analysis
- Magnetic Field, Transient and magnetostatic analysis
- Frequency Domain Solver
Beside that Maxwell provides a lot of build-in features to ful fill the engineers needs to analyse electromechanical and electromagnetic applications.
External Circuit Coupling
Couple your Finite Element Model to a SPICE driven external circuit. Have access to results related to that circuit directly from the Maxwell Post-Processing. This feature can be used to create real world loads and excitations to motors and generators. But it can also be used to link the FE model to a test fixture which is very close to the one in the measurement. The FE model-to-Circuit link is dynamic and two-directional.
Electromagnetic Analysis meets Mechanical Simulation
Ansoft Maxwell contains all needed tools to do a electromechanical simulation.
Rotational and Translational Motion as well as non-cylindrical rotation can be included. Maxwell also provides the calculation of forces and torques of any part in the FE model.
Generating RLC-Matrix Data
Depending on the analysis type the user can determine Resistance, Capacitance or Inductance matrix of the system with respect to the excitations and conducting paths.
Focusing on Losses
There is a wide range of loss calculations available. Core losses, Eddy Current losses, hysteresis losses (which includes the minor loop effects) and excess losses can be determined to give you the ability to make your system more efficient.
Advanced Product Coupling
Ansoft Maxwell interacts with a variety of other Ansoft tools. Ansoft Links can act as a geometry interface. Generated models within the analytical tools RMxprt and PExprt can directely imported. A full setup with parameters, boundary conditions and excitations can be automatically generated just by pressing a button.
A link to Ansoft ePhysics and ANSYS Workbench allow the user to solve thermal problems on his electromagnetic\ electromechanical device.
And at least the most important interface: the Maxwell Finite Element Model can be embedded into a Simplorer System Analysis.
Link your Motor, Actuator, Relay or Sensor into a complex Control System including fully characterized power electronic devices, mixed signal control sequences and automation.